Squirrel-smoker.



No. 841,901. PATENTED JAN. 22, 1907.

G. F. SHIRROD.

SQUIRRBL SMOKER. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20. 1906.

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GEORGE F. SHIRROD, OF UNIONTOWN, WASHINGTON.

SQUlRREL-SMOKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.v

Patented Jan. 22, 1907.

Application filed September 20, 1906. Serial No- 335,438.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. SHIRROD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Uniontown, in the county of Whitman, State of VVashington,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Squirrel-Smokers and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. A

This invention has relation to contrivances for destroying squirrels and other animals, reptiles, or vermin that are underground or in other places where they may be reached by fumigation by smoke or other gas.

The invention is fully and clearly shown as embodied in the device portrayed in the annexed drawings, forming a part of this specification, in view of which it will be first described with respect to its construction and mode of operation and then be pointed out in the subjoined claim.

Of the said drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved animal-exterminator. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. 1

Similar numerals of reference designate similar parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

In the drawings, 10 designates a frame comprising legs 11, which may be employed to support in raised position the drum 12 and bearings for the shaft 13, provided with a fan 14, inside of the drum. On the shaft 13 outside of the drum there is a small pulley 15, about which passes a belt 16, that extends about a larger pulley 17, supported by the frame. By the means just described the fan is rotated. The sides of the drum about the bearings of the fan-shaft are open, so as to admit air into the drum when the fan or blower 14 is operated.

The sides of the drum may be made of wood, while the inclosing means between the sides and the tapering spout 17, extending therefrom, may be composed of tin or other sheet metal. 4

From the forward end of the spout there extends a fire-box 18, composed of heavy tin or other sheet metal. The forward end of the spout extends into the rear end of the fire box or cylinder and 1s disconnectedly held in place therein by a rod 19, extending transverselythrough the parts, as shown.

Connected with the forward end of the fire-cylinder 18 is a nozzle 20, that tapers on its upper side to the point 21, to which, ifneed be, any form of smoke or gas delivering pipe may be attached to extend the nozzle. The material of which the nozzle is composed may be the same or different material from the fire box or cylinder, and it may be formed integral with or separate from the latter.

The end of the shaft of the larger pulley 17 is provided with a crank by which said pulley is operated to operate the machine.

There is a handle 22, that extends under the fire cylinder or box 18, and another handle 23 connected with the frame, whereby the device, which is relatively light in weight, may be carried from place to place.

The under side of the spout, fire-box,- and nozzle is substantially straight, while the tapering that is done in said parts is on the upper side. This is done for the purpose of bringing the discharge end of the nozzle as low as is practicable, inasmuch as the same will frequently be inserted in a hole in the ground.

In use the rod 19 will be withdrawn and the spout and fire-box separated, so that a suitable fire may be started in the latter, when the spout and fire-box will be again connected, and with the nozzle inserted in the hole in the ground through which the animal passed the fan or blower may be operated,

w1th the effect of forcing the smoke or other gas from the fire through the nozzle into the hole in which it is inserted.

The legs which support the drum give an inclination downward of the nozzle and its connections, so as to better adapt the said nozzle to be inserted in a hole in the ground.

While the machine is particularly designed to exterminate ground-squirrels, it may be employed to kill any animal, reptile, or vernected ends of the spout and fire-cylinder min that burrows or enters a hole in the l and made removable to disconnect the said ground. 7 I ends and reconnect them and a nozzle con- What is claimed is f nected with the other end of the fire-cylinder. 5 In an animal-exterminator, the combina- In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature 15 tion with the drum, a blower, and legs for in presence of two witnesses. supporting them in raised position, of a spout GEORGE F. SHIRROD. leading from the drum, a fire-cylinder into which the end of the spout is adapted to slide, 10 a rod passed transversely through the con- Witnesses:

S. HILLIARD, J. A. PALMER. 

